Birthdays, birthdays, birthdays - I feel like September is always full of birthdays and anniversaries. It’s nine months after all those Christmas flings happened (Happy birthday if you’re turning a year older this month!) and a time of year when everyone gets their act together - maybe going to a new city and starting a new club or party. This weekend Rinse FM and Subculture continue their celebrations of having spent 20 years in the game and they’ll need your help to celebrate properly.
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plus residents they are CONVINCED you’ll “wear out the soles of your pumps / snap your heels clean off” before the end of the night. “Dress to jam” they say, which, judging by the poster means where the brightest and best thing you own.
20 Years Of Subculture After Party w Lil Tony @ Sub Club, Glasgow
Sat Sep 6**
Like Rinse, one of the world’s longest running weekly clubs (that’s what this says anyway) continues to celebrate it’s 20th anniversary this year. But, before you get to thinking that 1994 must have been amazing and we’re all just doomed now - get down to the latest party from Harri & Domenic this Saturday. After a boat party in the day catch Lil Tony (the central character on Helsinki’s club scene and all round great-fun DJ) alongside residents.
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Festival No 6 @ Portmeirion, Wales
Fri Sep 5
If you’ve ever seen cult-tv show The Prisoner you’ll already be familiar with the weirdness of Portmeirion, a tourist village in North Wales based on the Italian village of Portofino. It’s great whatever is going on but this weekend there is added incentive to visit with Festival No.6 - a festival they say is “serene, spiritual and very very special… sculpted for those who enjoy life’s finer things”. It might be a bit late notice to go for the whole weekend but pick a day and get on the train and you can still see the likes of Beck, London Grammar, Kelis, Jon Hopkins, Julio Bashmore, Todd Terje, Andrew Weatherall, Bodhi and a lot more. And if you do stay over, or make the trip next year, there’s a lot of choice.
Best of the rest
*Friday Sep 5 *
Noir, Patrick Topping @ Egg, London
Seven Davis Jr, J Rocc @ XOYO, London
Gold Teeth Fading Tan Special @ Jamm, London
Friendly Fires DJ Set @ The Nest, London
Horizons Music @ Plan B, Lonodon
Danny Krivit @ Ace Hotel, London
Fever 105 w Space Dimension Controller @ Bussey Building, London
Principals 2nd Birthday @ Bussey Building, London
Wolf Music presents I Wanna See All My Friends w Francis Inferno @ Dance Tunnel, London
Shift with Matt JAM Lamont @ Warehouse, London
Blink @ Rhythm Factory, London
Bunker 194 @ 512 Bar, London
Nonline w Jay Simon @ Tipsy, London
Desolate London @ Stokey Stop, London
Bass Cadet Recordstore @ The Waiting Room, London
The Get Down @ The Book Club ,London
Wild Life! @ The Queen Of Hoxton, London
Linear Space @ The Alibi, London
Tantalise @ The Coach House, Birmingham
Resonance Third Birthday @ Rainbow, Birmingham
Jah Tubby’s World Soundsystem @ Lab 11, Birmingham
Hivve presents Alexkid @ Next Door, Birmingham
Full Beam! w/ Glowing Palms @ Roadhouse, Manchester
Knee Deep presents Iain O’hare @ Moko Lounge, Harrogate
Gymnast @ The Castle Hotel, Manchester
Erase The Tapes w William Wet @ The Eagle, Salford
Playground and Deep Water Records Free Party @ The Whiskey Jar, Manchester
Hector Couto @ Origin, Aberdeen
Let It Bleed presents Oliver $ @ Nox, Aberdeen
Uno Mas @ La Cheetah Club, Glasgow
In Deep: John K @ Sneaky Pete’s Edinburgh
Boddika @ Tribal Nightclub, Essex
Birkhouse Recordings Takeover @ Cosies, Bristol
Karnival! @ Attic Bar,, Bristol
*Sat Sep 6 *
Red Sky @ Brixton Academy, London
Siesta Summer @ Coronet Theatre, London
Rhyhmatic by day @ Village Underground, London
High Rise @ Rockwell Roof Garden, London
Jackmaster + Kenny Dope @ XOYO, London
Levon Vincent @ Fabric, London
Bloc: Shed - live @ Autumn Street Studios, London
Sumo @ Rhythm Factory, London
High Rise @ Dalston Roof Park, London
South London Soul Train @ Bussey Building, London
Stush @ Brixton Jamm, London
Reviveher x Tief @ Corsica Studios, London
Buntu @ Islington Metalworks, London
Celebrate Life - Dope Jams London Party @ Dance Tunnel, London
All My Friends @ Ace Hotel, London
Hipsters Don’t Dance @ Shacklewell Arms, London
Switched @ Cargo, London
Savethebees Moan Showcase @ Rainbow, Birmingham
Bruk Up @ Hare & Hounds, Birmingham
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Tomson @ The Magnet, Liverpool
Solar Knights presents Christop @ Inside Out, Darlington
Karnival presents Siman Mobile Disco DJ Set @ The Liquid Room, Edinburgh
Secretsundaze Glasgow @ Saint Judes, Glasgow
Oli Furness @ The Tunnels, Aberdeen
20 years of Subculture Boat Party w/ Harri & Domenic @ Clyde Cruises, Glasgow
Laurent Garnier @ Concorde 2, Brighton
Tek Project presents Tough Love @ Mansion Night Club, Southend On Sea
Dancetrip presents Nail @ Tripp
Archive @ Timbuk2, Bristol
Hot Buttered Soul Birthday Knees Up @ Big Chill, Bristol
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.